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An FNH reader (who wants to remain anonymous) had an Aarti/Husby encounter over the weekend, and wrote in to tell us about it:
Hi Jill! I am a huge fan of the website and the podcast. You girls crack me up and I am so glad you take the time to do what you do.
This weekend I attended an event in L.A. called The L.A. Times Celebration of Food and Wine. I wanted to go because I saw that Ree Drummond (The Pioneer Woman) would be speaking about blogging and I adore her. She was supposed to be on a panel with Aarti and some other TBD guest. I guess they couldn’t find anyone else who wanted to sit next to Aarti because it ended up just being Ree and Aarti and a moderator who took audience questions for the two ladies.
As I was watching Aarti and Ree take the stage I noticed a weird looking guy walking by. He looked like either a Rodeo clown or a homeless person. He had a bushy beard, what appeared to be ladies flared jeans with leopard print fabric on the back pockets, a baby blue, two-sizes-too-small blazer and some kind of douchey hat. I elbowed my boyfriend and said “who is that guy, he looks familiar?” I’ve gotten my BF totally hooked on your site and he recognized the hobo right away “It’s Aarti’s husband!” He looked like a complete ass. For one thing, it was about 100 degrees out and everyone was sweating balls and he is dressed in jeans and a blazer! Once he took the blazer off I realized why he was wearing it. Underneath he had on a denim cowboy-style shirt with the sleeves cut off. Wow. Just, wow.
Aarti’s husby’s get up was way more interesting than anything she had to say. She was totally fake, talked non-stop and didn’t let Ree get a word in edgewise. It was super awkward when they asked Aarti who her role models were and she said “Ree! She’s my idol.” And Ree was like “Oh, I love your blog too!” when it was super obvious that Ree had no clue who Aarti was.
Keep up the good work!
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What straight man wears leopard print fabric?
Why does her “husby” make me think of Uncle Eddie from Christmas Vacation?
HAHA that is a perfect description that I will associate with him forever more!
LOL, Ray. Yes, that is the perfect description. Aarti mentioned her husby so many times during her show this past Sunday that it was positively nauseating. Wonder when she’ll trot him out on camera or name a drink after him ala Rachael Ray’s “Bloody Johnnies.”
That theres an RV Aarti!
a denim shirt with the sleeves cut off…
So I just had to Google that in case I’m missing the fashion boat again, and here’s what came up on urbandictionary:
vesticular denimcide
to take a reasonably worn, in perfect shape, jean jacket and cut off the sleeves to make the ultimate white trash denim-frayed vest. Often seen with biker wannabes and other Joe Dirt personas.
Husby IS Joe Dirt!
More like an insult to Joe Dirt…love your screen name, BTW.
Joe Dirt! Priceless! And yes, an insult to Joe.
Why would anyone want to see either one of them?
I know! I don’t get it.
These people come under the same catagory as the balloon boy’s father. Shamless self promoters who’s goal in life is to be famous regardless of the cost, and the potential humiliation when the lack of any talent is exposed in the public eye.
In hurry, sorry about spelling I know how concerned some people are about that.
I particularly take offense to your use of the world “shamless”. We all know these two are a sham!!
(just kiddin’ with you, Tom.) :)
And, uh, I guess that should have been “use of the word”. sheesh. Physician, heal thyself, and all that. Typos are fun!
Tom, good observation on the balloon nuts.
Arti and hubs are ShamWow!
Bourdain’s white sandals would go great with that outfit.
Hhaha! Totally!
OMG – YESSSSS!
What is it? This guy and rachel’s husband competing to see who can look more like a homeless booze bum.
Ree posted about it on her blog – says she didn’t know who Aarti was beforehand, but just loves her – of course, she has to be nice about it on her blog, so who knows what was really going through her mind. She also called husby “ridiculously adorable” … I wonder what she actually thought of him.
Wow. This Ree woman sounds just as fake as Aarti then.
Read between the lines: “ridiculously deplorable”. Don’t think she’s fake, just professional.
Who the hell is Ree Drummond? And why does anyone think we all should know her?
Good question, I thought I was the only one.
I had heard of the Pioneer Woman before in the blogosphere, she is a woman who basically runs a ranch. I read some of her blog thinking it might be more food based, but it turned out to be stories of her life which I don’t really find interesting.
Ree Drummond, the Guru of grease, cow patties and fairy tales, is nothing but a brand. Although she claims to be just a “little ol’ ranch wife” nothing could be farther from the truth. Her husband, who belongs to one of the largest landowning families in the US, bankrolled her blog and photography hobby. She posted some greasy, salty, unhealthy recipes and hired a publicist. Voila, The Pioneer Woman was born. She’s nothing but a mediocre, talentless hack.
Wow, hate much? Maybe you should try to be less jealous and get on with your life.
Ree and Aarti – two self-promoting people that have no business being in the national spotlight, together on the same stage. How perfect.
Why are people so quick to belittle people who obviously have been successful through a little hard work and determination? Ree Drummond gets about 20 million hits a month on her blog and Aarti has been pretty well received with her win. It’s one thing to find humor in some of the ridiculousness the network puts out there, but it’s another to be plain rude for no real reason.
20 million hits a month on gREEd’s blog! Prove it!
I still maintain that “husby” is gonna get the “bootsie” when Aarti figures out that he is a liability. Oh Aarti is featured in this edition of Food Network Mag..
loved your e-mail — “some kind of douchey hat” ha!
Aarti seems to have ‘suddenly’ emerged from the little innocent ‘ Who me? tee-hee You really like me?’ stage. As mentioned on an earlier post ‘she has plans baby!’
She’s just an unspoiled innocent, lacking in confidence (bat eyelashes) and, golly jeepers, unschooled in all the stuff that Big City folk know!
I haaaaate the Pioneer Woman. I’ve unfortunately read her blog before, it’s all about boasting about how rich she is, how they shelter/homeschool their kids, and what kind of slop she cooks for her “cowboy” husband and his friends.
She got popular because she accidentally gave stay-at-home-moms the idea that they could be successful at blogging about crap no one cares about. Now the blogosphere is drowning with stay-at-home moms who homeschool their kids and think they’re better at teaching than accomplished teachers. Jesus is thrown in there somewhere too…
In a nutshell, Ree Drummond is a rich, bored, housewife, who ended up using her wealth, to make even MORE money.
Shoudn`t she have a show on FN by now?
“Ree’s Ready Made Ranch Vittles” or something to that effect….
that was just too funny..thanks
Really? Ok, my bad. I’ll admit, I’ve not looked her up *yet. hmmm….
Thank you! How are they so rich, anyway? I thought “small family farmers” were struggling nowadays… They run a cow meat farm & that’s it, no? And they have four young kids! Where the hell does their money come from?
They own a lot of land. The Drummond family (Ree’s father in law) recently sold a small portion of their land for $20 million.
I’ve enjoyed reading Ree’s blog, but it’s not a daily habit like FNH. What an odd couple Reeeee and Aaaaaarti made for a so-called panel! I wonder who bowed (chickened) out? ;)
Oooh, too bad they didn’t have any I Ain’t Chicken Chicken! Perhaps they need a Huggy Buggy Pudding hug?
What is Husby? I have been seeing this new term and not sure what is stands for? Can someone explain so I can get on the husby page? Thanks
So far as I can tell, it’s just a FNH-ism for ‘husband’.
Um, we didn’t make that God-awful word up. It’s how Aarti refers to her husband.
part male hussy, part wannabe: husby
Funny, melange :)
I have to say I’m a bit surprised at all the Pioneer Woman hate. I’ve been following her blog for several years now and she has always come off as being really sweet and sincere.
What’s not to get? FNH readers don’t like fake. And if this Pioneer lady can sit there and straight-faced profess love for Aarti’s blog when she’s never heard of the show, let alone read it, is pretty lame.
The way I look at it is, the woman has a public persona and a blog. Going and bitching about Aarti would be the equivalent for most people of making a blog post about how shitty their boss is. She has nothing to gain by doing that.
Yeah. True. But going out of your way to blabber about how great someone is – when you really have no clue who they are – is fucking lame. She wrote the blog post after the fact. At the event she had no clue who she was! That’s when she made the comment about loving her blog, when she never even read it. I call fake and phony!
It’s certainly hypocritical, jenna. Or something close to it. That said, it’s also something I think we’re all used to here by now, from various FN stars. :)
I really don’t know who this Pioneer Woman is, either, so I wonder why she’d feel the need to kiss Aarti’s ass that way. Aarti isn’t her boss. A colleague (say that with a straight face), maybe. Is she (PW) part of Food Network? What would be the repercussions for her if she didn’t respond in the way she did? Maybe she dreams of her own future FN show and doesn’t want to say anything potentially risky. But, again, I don’t know much about her.
Ree is just nice, you can be nice without being fake. She isn’t doing it to gain something or to avoid getting in some kind of trouble, she just doesn’t say mean things about people. I know that’s weird for people like us who love the snarkiness of FNH but some people really are like that!
Any blogger who talks about themselves (IMHO) always comes off as a selfish/douchebag. I can’t STAND bloggers because of their f’in ego’s.
People like Jillian are the only ones who should be allowed to blog because they aren’t shameless promoters. She’s blogging the right way.
That’s exactly why I love Jillian and FNH. Every blog is the same. Self centered people blabbering on about shit in their lives that they think everyone cares about. FNH is like the anti-blog, and it’s probably one of the most honest sites on the internet. Keep callin’ it as it is, Jillian!
I don’t consider this site a blog. Bloggers write. This site is mostly a picture book.
That’s not Aarti’s husband. That’s the new marvel superhero – Super Douche!
Hey! We were also at the Food/Wine session and couldn’t believe how awful it was content-wise, based on the original subject of “How to be a Food Blogger” or something like that.
Here’s what some of the questions were:
Q: do you have any recommendation for people who also want to blog about food?
A: WordPress! And don’t write about food, but write about anything you feel like. (hahahahhaha)
Q: any suggestions for using social media to promote your food blog?
A: Well, my blog got really promoted thanks to Food Network, but you can use Twitter and Facebook! And make videos! (hahahahhaha)
Q: How do you edit your videos?
A: We use that super expensive Final Cut Pro that my daddy bought for me and hubsy because we can use it for his audition tapes, but you can use anything that’s less expensive or even free…but I can’t name any of those products since I don’t use them (hahahahhaha)
Q: How do you take pictures of food?
A: Get in real tight with your camera, ditch the tripod. Use a Flipcam. And try not to look at my big boobs in the video… (hahahahhaha) [[Seriously, Aarti made a reference to her boobs, while Ree was apologetic about using the term "hanky panky" in a crowd that included some younger folks]]
Seriously, it would have been a more interesting session if it was just “Ask Aarti about being on Food Network Star”. Felt bad for Ree – she seemed nice and did have a number of fans in the audience.
Was the session a complete waste of time? Yes and no. YMMV.
I did not want Aarti to win. The videos I have seen here of her and her man are revolting and I would never go look them up on youtube. But, I do wonder if TFN might get a little concerned about how unconventional he is, and how it seems he makes most people feel very uncomfortable. Those videos you posted of him are really weird. Frankly, they are both weird.
The woman and her freaky husband are train wrecks waiting to happen. I genuinely do not understand how she ended up with her own show. Hopefully her “career” will be short and forgettable and someone with real talent will take her place.
Ever seen that movie “the Devil’s Rejects”?…
Ewww, ewww, ewwww, just the thought of attending and seeing that. My IQ just dropped significantly knowing Aarti was speaking. My retinas are in sympathetic mode having vicariously viewed husby in all is non-splendor. Ewwwww.
Just curious…What is up with the giant silverware edited into the middle of the “husby” picture?
I don’t think it is edited in. I think it is part of their backdrop, this being the Food & Wine Festival. They probably thought it was cute.
I hate wannabe’s who just can’t make it….this guy needs to be kept down!
I have a feeling husby is going to be dropped as soon as she realizes he is a liability. He seems the kind of person that would use her to network. “Hi, I am husby from Aarty Paarty, would you like my wife to cook you something so you get some extra spicy farts?”
David Lebovitz, Deb Perelman and Ree Drummond would be my dream panel
Poor Ree, too bad she’s so ambitious she’d sink to this level of self-promotion. Silly woman who has an even sillier/fakish blog all about HER, even though she has 4 kids she exploits mercilessly every single day. What would she write about otherwise — unless her rich cattle baron hubby (with the tight ass) and her photo-shop photos she takes while she works the kids like slaves. Yeah, Ree is about the TOP self-absorbed (middle child, we KNOW) blogger out there.
I have to disagree with you. If anything, she laughs at herself a LOT and if you think her kids are worked like slaves, then they are the happiest looking slaves I’ve ever seen.